Good Afternoon!
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Throughout the week, we’ll be diving into community helpers in our area and how they help us. Today, we focused in on the tools that community helpers need to do their jobs. During our sign in activity, children chose one card from the bottom of the board that had one tool written on it. They had to match it to the correct community helper and then write their name!
Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.
After we read, ‘I Want To Be A Firefighter’ in PREK1 group, we focused in on four community helpers: builder, farmer, firefighter, and chef. Our initial goal was to come up with three tools for each helper but we surpassed that goal! When we started having an open conversation about each helper, friends to quick to shout out tools that would be needed to do that job. The seven members of group did an amazing job working together to come up with a large list for each community helper!
Social Studies: K.2.1 Give examples of people who are community helpers (inside the classroom and outside the classroom) and describe how they help us.
This morning we explored different colors of playdough that we could mix. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to try making multicolored creations. There was a cake and a veggie spaghetti concoction that spurred a great little imaginative play moment amongst those at the table! Friends took turns sharing what dish they made and offering a “taste” to friends.
Friends enjoyed an obstacle course that offered ways to hop, jump, scoot, balance and crawl in order to get some much needed exercise this morning! Friends enjoyed counting to “five jumps”…and also noticing if anyone accidently made it to six :).
The round table offered color sorting activities with different objects on each tray. Many enjoyed trying each tray! When Paige sat down, she noticed that the colors mimicked those in the rainbow so she immediately voice, “I need to put these in the right order!”, and proceeded to sort them based on the colors of the rainbow before she got to sorting them!
PREK2: In group today we read the story “I Ain’t Gonna Paint No More”. We enjoyed guessing what part of his body the boy in the story would paint next. At the end, we talked about what the boy could do to clean up the mess. The kids felt he could wipe up the paint or take a bath. We talked about jobs we do to help in the classroom and jobs that are teachers do. Then we each came up to the board to get a job card. We sorted the cards after we decided whose job it was.
Breakfast– Kix and fresh blueberries.
Lunch– Homemade chicken avocado salad on whole wheat bread, fresh oranges/banana, and fresh cucumber/carrots.
PM snack– Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese.
Wee Sprout– Fresh carrots/cucumber/pepper.
Have a lovely night.
-Wee Friends Teachers
Link to pictures: 2025-01-07